To: pirate_gold who wrote (32 ) 8/2/2011 8:42:14 AM From: loantech Respond to of 44 From brent cook in the gold report:TGR: Ryan Gold Corp. (TSX.V:RYG) and Wolverine Minerals Corp. (TSX.V:WLV) are both drilling geophysical and geochemical anomalies in the Yukon this summer. Yet Ryan is valued at around $230M (million) and Wolverine at around $22M. Can you compare the potential of each of those companies and their values as it pertains to the larger play going on in the Yukon?BC: That's a real interesting question. Both of them have geochemical anomalies in the Yukon—so do a hundred other companies. Ryan Gold has a very influential and well-connected group of people associated with it. That has helped its valuation a lot. It also has one project that I consider pretty darn sexy: the Ida Oro Project. It's got the look and feel of a large, intrusive-hosted gold system. That's all we know. We don't even know what the average grade is going to be. If it's a disseminated deposit, which it appears to be, it could be an average of 1 g/t. That's a pretty skinny margin for a deposit in the Yukon and I hope they do better than that. Even at a 2 g/t average everything else would have to work to make it an attractive takeover target. That jump between 1 g/t and 2 g/t gold is a big hurdle if you look at a cumulative grade plot for large deposits. Turning to Wolverine Minerals, it also has good, competent management. I've got a lot of respect for them. The company has a number of projects and I think it will begin drilling on a few of them over the summer. The company's team is out there right now sampling and mapping. If they can pull two drill holes that show a potential economic system, our odds are leveraged at a $22M market cap versus Ryan's $200M. I like Wolverine in that respect, but it does not have the solid target defined yet like Ryan Gold. TGR: What about Wolverine's agreement with Strategic Metals Ltd. (TSX.V:SMD) ? BC: Strategic is supplying a lot of the workers, geologist, samplers and mappers. It's certainly an advantage. The company received most of its projects from Strategic in exchange for shares. I think that's the only involvement from Strategic.TGR: When should we expect some drill results from Wolverine and Ryan?BC: I suspect they'll be drilling in August. It's taking a long time to get assays to the labs given that everybody and their dog is up there rushing samples to the labs. There could be results in September or October.TGR: Is there an entry point on those stocks that is favorable?BC: We got into Wolverine at $0.35 in Exploration Insights and it's trading around $0.63 now. For investors looking for high-risk exposure in the Yukon, it's probably a reasonable entry point. Ryan Gold is a tough call. With Ryan, investors might want to wait and see what some of the results look like.